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The title which heads this paper is intended to be Latin, and is modelled on the precedent of the De Amicitia, De Senectute, De Corona, and other time-honoured plagues of our innocent boyhood.
Almost every branch of learning was ranked under the head of Philosophy. Strabo even claimed that one branch of Philosophy was Geography. 2, 3 interiectus est nuper liber is quem ad nostrum Atticum de senectute misimus. No argument can be founded on the words interiectus est, over which the editors have wasted much ingenuity. They simply mean 'there was inserted in the series of my works'.
But in verses the matter is more evident. And some of our countrymen are like them. Like that line in Thyestes: "Quemnam te esse dicam, qui tarda in senectute" ... And so on; for except when the flute-player is at hand to accompany them, those verses are very like prose.
OTIOSA SENECTUTE: 'leisured age'; otium in the Latin of Cicero does not imply idleness, but freedom from public business and opportunity for the indulgence of literary and scientific tastes. VIDEBAMUS: for the tense cf. Lael. 37 Gracchum rem publicam vexantem ab amicis derelictum videbamus, i.e. 'we saw over a considerable period'. See also 50, 79. Hor.
It was the voice of the dying to the dead, a last moment of the love and sensibility of genius, which feeble life could not extinguish. The genius of CICERO, inspired by the love of literature, has thrown something delightful over this latest season of life, in his de Senectute.
See ante, p. 366. See ante,, i. 458 'O præclarum diem quum ad illud divinum animorum concilium c'tumque profiscar. Cicero's De Senectute, c. 23. See ante, p. 396. See ante, ii. 162. I had not then seen his letters to Mrs. Thrale. In the Life of Edmund Smith. See ante, i. 81, and Johnson's Works, vii. 380. Unlike Walmsley and Johnson, of whom one was a Whig, the other a Tory.
The reporter goes on to state that there will be no lecture next week, on account of the expected combat between the bear and the barbarian. After all, the most encouraging things I find in the treatise, "De Senectute," are the stories of men who have found new occupations when growing old, or kept up their common pursuits in the extreme period of life.
Numquam igitur laudari satis digne philosophia poterit cui qui pareat omne tempus aetatis sine molestia possit degere. 3 Sed de ceteris et diximus multa et saepe dicemus: hunc librum ad te de senectute misimus.
The reporter goes on to state that there will be no lecture next week, on account of the expected combat between the bear and the barbarian. After all, the most encouraging things I find in the treatise, "De Senectute," are the stories of men who have found new occupations when growing old, or kept up their common pursuits in the extreme period of life.
OFFICIA ET MUNERA: see n. on 29. NE SINT: 'grant that age has no strength'. This formula of concession for argument's sake is frequent in Cicero, who often attaches to it sane. A. 266, d; G. 610; H. 515, III. SENECTUTE = senibus: see n. on 26. LEGIBUS ET INSTITUTIS: 'by statute and precedent'. MUNERIBUS EIS etc.: chiefly military service.
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